The Washington Post’s Peter Eisner,¬† continues his three year crusade to convince us a of previously debunked points, and of course his employer is all to glad to help him sell his book.

In his book he recounts the so-called nigerian forgeries which he - as the rest of the left touts as well - that the forgeries formed the base for the US push for war against Iraq.¬†¬†¬† Of course this has been long since debunked as it wasn’t the only case for going to war and indeed the question of Saddam’s attempt to purchase uranium is still a matter of open debate.¬† It is indeed most definitely not a closed issue that he was not.

Eisner rehashes the talking points on the left to include the ridiculous and wrong assertion that Joe Wilson debunked the claim which is completely wrong for we know that his “wife suggested” mission confirmed rather than denied the reports.

“The report also said Wilson provided misleading information to The Washington Post last June. He said then that he concluded the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had clearly been forged because “the dates were wrong and the names were wrong.”

“Committee staff asked how the former ambassador could have come to the conclusion that the ‘dates were wrong and the names were wrong’ when he had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports,” the Senate panel said. Wilson told the panel he may have been confused and may have “misspoken” to reporters. The documents — purported sales agreements between Niger and Iraq — were not in U.S. hands until eight months after Wilson made his trip to Niger.

Wilson’s reports to the CIA added to the evidence that Iraq may have tried to buy uranium in Niger, although officials at the State Department remained highly skeptical, the report said.

Wilson said that a former prime minister of Niger, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, was unaware of any sales contract with Iraq, but said that in June 1999 a businessman approached him, insisting that he meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss “expanding commercial relations” between Niger and Iraq — which Mayaki interpreted to mean they wanted to discuss yellowcake sales. A report CIA officials drafted after debriefing Wilson said that “although the meeting took place, Mayaki let the matter drop due to UN sanctions on Iraq.”

According to the former Niger mining minister, Wilson told his CIA contacts, Iraq tried to buy 400 tons of uranium in 1998.

I’ll have more to post on this with more reviews of the book.